Starbound Achievement Guide

This guide is intended to serve as a quick reference for completion of achievements in Starbound. I originally wrote this guide for the unstable version of the game, but I have created this revised version (without a table) to make it more clean and better organised.

If you see any incorrect statements (such as outdated information about unobtainable achievements/things I’m unaware of), please correct me in the comments. I will be happy to update the guide whenever I get the chance.

Complete Mazebound. You only need to beat it 300,000 times to win a slide whistle.

Go to the Beakeasy bar (underground area in the Outpost) and win the arcade game (unlocked upon beating the Avian quest). The achievement unlocks as soon as you pick up the winning ticket, and there is no slide whistle for beating it 300,000 times.

NPCs can be recruited as crew members in several ways. If you find a settlement of NPCs on a planet, you can sometimes complete quests for them. If you complete enough of these quests, they will ask to join your crew. Occasionally, colony tenants will also ask to join your crew provided you’ve completed enough quests for them. You can also recruit penguin crew members by using a Dubloon at the Beakeasy.

As mentioned previously, this achievement is unlockable by completing literally any quest in the game. You can get it automatically by ticking the “skip introductory mission” box in character creation.

Once the final artifact has been placed into the Ark ruins, a gate will open up through which you can beat the game’s final boss. However, this boss is extremely difficult without the right gear, and its attacks do a lot of damage, so you must make sure you have a lot of nanowrap bandages, strong armor (preferably accelerator armor) and ranged weapons – as melee is mostly useless in this fight. Once you defeat the boss, return to the Ark and talk to Esther again.

Recruit one crew member from every race. It’s like a teeny tiny protectorate.

For this achievement, you need Apex, Floran, Glitch, Avian, Hylotl, and human crew members (which are all fairly easy to get if you build a large colony or visit a lot of cities). However, you also need a Novakid. Novakids are pretty difficult to get, because they only spawn as tenants in houses with saloon-themed furniture.

Kill another person in multiplayer. For this to be accomplished, both players must first type /pvp to enable combat. However, you can also get the achievement by killing someone with fireworks, which you don’t need to type /pvp to damage someone with.

Move a planet’s worth of blocks. If you weren’t using a Matter Manipulator you’d be ripped.

This achievement requires you to break and obtain at least 10,000,000 blocks. This is insanely grindy, and there aren’t many easy ways to get it, especially if you’re not using admin commands. However, below I have listed several methods by which you might be able to obtain it.

Method 1 (credit to DarkNoddy!):One extremely efficient way to get the achievement is to fill your inventory with 1k block stacks (40k total) and suicide repeatedly in a pit of lava at beam point on a planet’s surface. You pick up the blocks again as soon as you fall in the lava, so all you have to do is beam down repeatedly and you should be able to get the achievement within an hour. To make things a little quicker, you can skip the beam-down animation by typing /suicide.Here’s a helpful picture demonstration of this method.[gaming.stackexchange.com]

Method 3:A far slower and less efficient way to get the achievement is to type “/spawnitem superfishaxe” (a special unobtainable tool) to mine blocks more quickly. I don’t really see why you’d do this considering how incredibly slow it’d be compared to the other methods, but it’s an option if you want it.

Unearth 55 unique fossils. Try not to pay attention to the ones that are alarmingly humanoid.

This is very, very time consuming, but with patience and many master brushes you can do it. Biomes with tar seem to have far more fossils than others, so look out for them if you’re going for this achievement.

Action figures are a 1/1000 drop from their respective monster, so this is insanely grindy and pretty much impossible to get without spawning them in with a command. This will probably be reworked/better balanced in a future patch.

Harvest 30 unique crops. Start thinking about who you’d like to romance and that barn extension.

Fairly easy once you have explored many planets and have a decent farm going. Ironically, despite this being one of the easier achievements, it was actually the last one I ever unlocked in the unstable version of the game.

Obtained by attracting 10 different tenants to your colony. However, only tenants attracted using the Frög Furnishings and biome-exclusive furniture sets will count. For a full list of tenants that count for the achievement, visit this[starbounder.org] wiki page and look under “Themed Furniture Tenants” and “Mini-biome tenants”.

Note: since Frög Furnishings only changes what furniture sets it sells every 24 hours, you can change your computer’s clock and make it change instantly to speed things up.